(February 10, 2015 at 12:29 pm)coolfunkDJ Wrote: How did you feel before you converted vs. after you converted?Not all that different, really. My own deconversion was a very slow and drawn-out process with very little pressure, so when I finally accepted that I did not believe in god, it didn't bowl me over or change my day-to-day life. I do enjoy the freedom and control that I feel now that I decided to take my fate in my own hands, but I was always a happy-go-lucky sort of person.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
